It measures roughly 3.5 metres north to south, 1.6 metres east to west, and just 0.6 metres high; less a landmark than a quiet interruption in the ground. What makes it worth pausing over is its position within the eastern sector of a univallate cahir, a single-banked stone enclosure of the kind scattered across the Kerry landscape, where the low enclosing bank is still traceable despite considerable overgrowth.

The enclosure itself sits to the east of a site known as Lisnadarree, a name that translates from the Irish as the ringfort of the oak, which suggests the area carried significance long before anyone recorded it formally. The cahir and its interior mound were documented as part of the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995 by C. Toal, which catalogued the dense concentration of early medieval and prehistoric remains across this part of the county. The function of the oblong mound within the enclosure is not specified in the survey, and that ambiguity is part of what makes it interesting. Interior mounds within enclosures can represent a range of things, from burial features to structural platforms, and without excavation the question stays open.